May 10, 2019
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Rosemonde Sanson, « Les jeunesses d’Action française avant la Grande Guerre », Presses universitaires du Septentrion, ID : 10.4000/books.septentrion.39252
Before 1914, the youth movements of the Action française (students and ‘camelots’) were characterised by their youthful organisation, their virulent proselytising and their efforts to draw young nationalists and young Catholics into neo-royalist opposition to the Republic. These militants acquired a political culture closely linked to the thought of Charles Maurras but were distinguished by their all-out militancy. Their main targets were ‘antipatriots’, pro-Dreyfus Republicans, Jews and ethnic minorities. Provocations (‘le chahut’) were erected into a political method, as in the Thalamas and Bersntein cases. However, their influence on the reawakening of patriotism in the years 1910-1924 was limited. Thanks to their militancy, these ‘fanatics’ (H. Lagrange) contributed to promoting ‘total nationalism’ and neo-royalism without overthrowing the Republic they detested.